Paste a link to a presentation and ask what it says. The agent reads the whole thing back as text, so it can summarize it, answer a question from it, or compare several, and it cites the slide each answer came from.
Ask in plain English, or type /watch. It works on anyone's public or unlisted
presentation, and on your own private ones once you're signed in.
What to ask for
Give it one link per presentation and say what you want out of it.
What does https://bisque.today/p/nick/q3-review say about pricing?
Summarize this in five bullets: bisque.today/p/siderakis/this-week-in-bun
Read last week's roundup and this week's, and tell me what changed.
Before I send this out, check slide four. Is the number right?
A link to one presentation is better than a link to a channel. A channel lists many, and the agent will stop and ask which one you meant. For a comparison, give it each link; it reads them one at a time and reasons across them.
What comes back
An answer built from the presentation itself: its title, the narration of every slide, and the background notes the author published alongside it. Each claim names its slide, as "slide 3", and the agent hands you the link so you can watch the part it quoted.
If the presentation doesn't cover what you asked, the agent says so rather than filling the gap from general knowledge. That is the point of reading the real transcript.
Changing it
| You want | Say |
|---|---|
| A shorter answer | "just the three main points" |
| The exact wording | "quote what slide four says, word for word" |
| To jump to the moment | "give me the link to where it covers the budget" |
| The author's notes, not the talk | "what's in the background notes on this?" |
To change what a presentation says, ask present to republish it. Reading never changes anything; the presentation stays exactly as its author published it.
The first time
Nothing to download and nothing to set up. Public and unlisted presentations
open without a sign-in. Your own private presentations open once you have
signed in, which happens the first time you publish with present.
Limits
- A link that won't open is either not found or not shared with you, and the agent can't tell which. Check the link, or make the presentation unlisted if it's yours.
- A very long presentation can have some slides missing from its transcript. The agent tells you before it summarizes, and never calls that summary complete.
- It reads what is published. Nothing is re-recorded or republished to read it, so a presentation someone changed since you last looked reads as it is now.
Where it fits
present makes a presentation, watch reads one back, and
video turns one into a file. Read first when the question is "what does this
say"; ask present when the answer is "it should say something else."